I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

…that’s exceedingly interesting, and neatly deflates the “Well, Candidate X can’t win because of [insert random bit of historical trivia here]” arguments that we get a lot. Well-played, although there’s a typo for 1800 and the forums are right: 1996 IS a slight stretch. Forgivable, to be sure.

Munroe is usually pretty thorough on his research, I still cite his “radiation and bananas” bit at people who are worried about stuff like Fukushima but ignore that they live in brick houses. (people who live in brick houses shouldn’t throw gamma particles?)
.http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
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We’re definitely gonna break some streaks with this regardless … but that’s a part of life. After all, nobody landed on the moon before Leslie LeCroix (erm.. Neil Armstrong), right?
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Mew